
Tsinghua-backed unicorn Galaxea expands in Hangzhou’s robotics hub
For Hangzhou, Galaxea’s arrival adds another well-funded embodied-AI player to a cluster that already includes several unicorn companies.

For Hangzhou, Galaxea’s arrival adds another well-funded embodied-AI player to a cluster that already includes several unicorn companies.

The model, unveiled Tuesday night, uses a new “Next” architecture with 125 billion total parameters but activates just 6 billion at a time.

New funding is accelerating advances in chip interconnects, AI-driven engineering, dermatology and aerospace thermal management.

It will comprise two computing-center buildings and primarily support Alibaba Cloud’s AI model training operations.

Dreame’s expansion was fueled by a financing model that combined roughly 20% of its own capital with 80% from local state-backed investors.

For investors, the move offers a different perspective at a time when founder share sales are closely watched.

Insider buying can demonstrate conviction; it cannot by itself prove that Alibaba’s AI investments will generate attractive returns.

Optical interconnect and micro-display startups raised fresh capital to accelerate product commercialization and core technology development.

Founder Wang Xingxing has acknowledged as much, calling generalization the industry’s biggest bottleneck.

Since April 2025, the research arm has released AI models targeting four major cancers — pancreatic, gastric, colorectal and liver cancer.